On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > I was going to use parted and create a partition, but I don't know what > to > > use for the end point. > > > > Model: AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK (scsi) > > Disk /dev/sda: 14.0TB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > > Partition Table: gpt > > > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > >> > I used the BIOS setting to create the raid system. I couldn't format > >> it, > >> > so I ran fdisk, deleted the partition and created a new partition. > >> The > >> > new partition with fdisk was approximately the same size as the > >> original > >> > partition created by the BIOS. > >> > >> Ok, I don't know what you mean by the BIOS setting - on what? Is this > >> attached to a server, or is this an "appliance"? If the former, do you > >> mean the firmware for an HBA? > >> > >> At any rate, you *cannot* use fdisk to do anything with this. There are > >> hard-coded limits with fdisk - you *must* use either parted (which is > >> user > >> surly, if not outright hostile) or gparted (the GUI version, which is, > >> well, ok). And you must specify that the partition table - there is no > >> MBR > >> as we know it, for something this big - must be GPT, not MBR. > >> > >> mark > >> > > >> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > >> >> > I have a raid-5, /dev/sda on a NAS node that has 12.73 Tb of space. > >> >> > > >> >> > mkfs xfs /dev/sda1 > >> >> > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > >> >> > mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sda1 > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> Question 1: Margaret - did you use parted or gparted, or fdisk, or > >> some > >> >> NAS utility to create the logical partition? If anything other than > >> an > >> >> HBA > >> >> controller, you've cannot use fdisk, which cannot deal with anything > >> >> larger than 2TB. > >> >> > >> >> mark > >> >> > >> >> > I can use > >> >> > > >> >> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 works, but it only formats the first 2Tb of > >> space. > >> >> > > >> >> > filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> >> > /dev/sdb1 19G 2.8G 16G 16% / > >> >> > /dev/sdb5 875G 200M 830G 1% /state/partition > >> >> > /dev/sdb2 4.8G 184M 4.4G 5% /var > >> >> > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm > >> >> > /dev/sda1 2.0T 199M 1.9T 1% /bigdisk1 > >> >> > > >> >> > How do I get the complete raid system formatted? > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks > > There's another option, altogether. > > Skip gparted, altogether, and use LVM. Set the entire /dev/sda as an LVM > physical volume (instead of creating any partitions on it), add the PV to > a volume group, and then build filesystem(s) out using logical volume(s), > instead. > More details please. I want just one giant partition of 12 Tb or more when I am finished. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just > stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
